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there's a new achievement to unlock xbox live games can be played on hololens I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update more details are being revealed about microsoft's hololens augmented reality headset the company says the headset will work with xbox live games and that it's going to be set free into the wild sometime in the next year if you're unfamiliar with hololens this is a headset with a transparent screen in front of your eyes so you can see what's in front of you but it makes it appear that other computer-generated objects are floating around the room maybe you'll put buttons in your hallway a to-do list on the fridge a video player on your wall even the game Minecraft can look like it's just sitting on a table in front of you and you control all of this with your voice and hand gestures you can anchor these computer objects to physical locations in the real world and they remain there regardless if you walk away or you move your head that means you can attach Windows to your home windows if you so desire Microsoft said the online multiplayer games of Xbox Live can work on the hololens and independent game developers can also make games for the headset these games will also be playable on Windows 10 computers because Microsoft's gold these days is to make all of its systems work together as one you can expect there to be one Universal store for apps and games that can be accessed from different devices in an interview with the BBC Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the hololens would be first released to software developers within the next year and from there it may be tested in commercial use cases before would be something that you can buy for yourself there's a big video gaming conference going on now in Germany called games come and Microsoft you use the event to make some more announcements about updates coming to the Xbox one next year the game system will be able to record television shows like a DVR the Xbox one has something called a one guide it acts as a digital TV channel guide and you'll be able to set which shows you want to record automatically the shows can then be streamed to watch on a Windows 10 device and in November you'll be able to play old Xbox 360 games on the new Xbox one but starters it's only a hundred titles that you can download so it's not gonna be all of your games also in November the Xbox one is getting a new interface to work with Windows 10 that means you can use Cortana to make voice commands and ask questions but you need a Kinect camera to be able to do that from the Xbox and if you don't have a Kinect maybe you'll want this new Xbox one chat pad accessory it's a keyboard that just snaps on the bottom of the game controller that's it for this tech news update you can always get more news at cnet.com from our studios in new york I'm Bridget Carey